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The list of Tufts University people includes alumni, professors, and administrators associated with
Tufts University . For a list of Tufts' presidents, see
List of presidents of Tufts University . It includes alumni and affiliates of the acquired
Jackson College for Women and the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts .
Academics
College and university presidents
Lawrence S. Bacow , president of
Tufts University , 29th president of
Harvard University
Elmer Hewitt Capen (B.A. 1860), president of
Tufts College member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Leonard Carmichael (B.S. 1921), president of Tufts University and secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution
John Albert Cousens (B.A. 1903), president of Tufts College
Oliver Dean , acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the first and second presidents; founder of
Dean Academy
Dan Ehrenkrantz (B.A. 1983), president of the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and influential rabbi
John E. Endicott , co-president of
Woosong University and American foreign policy analyst specializing in security issues
Hollis Godfrey (B.S. 1895), president of
Drexel University
Frederick W. Hamilton (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1886), president of Tufts College
William Leslie Hooper , acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the fourth and fifth elected presidents
Moshe Many , Israeli
urologist ; president of
Tel Aviv University , and President of
Ashkelon Academic College
Kathleen McCartney (B.S. 1977), president of
Smith College and former dean of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education
George Stewart Miller , acting president of Tufts College
Miriam E. Nelson , president of
Hampshire College
Joseph W. Polisi (M.A. 1970), president of
The Juilliard School
Albert J. Simone , president of
Rochester Institute of Technology and the
University of Hawaii system
Katherine Haley Will (B.A. 1978), president of
Gettysburg College and former chair of the
Annapolis Group
Provosts, deans, and vice presidents
Lisa Anderson (M.A.), provost of the
American University in Cairo and Middle East political scholar
Scott C. Beardsley , dean of the
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
[1]
John L. Carroll , Dean of
Samford University 's
Cumberland School of Law and former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama
David R. Harris , provost of Tufts, president of
Union College
David W. Kennedy (M.A.L.D. 1979), vice president of international affairs at
Brown University and legal scholar
David Rosowsky (B.S./M.S. 1987), vice president of
University of Vermont , former dean of engineering of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard J. Smith (M.D./M.S., 1973), dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at
Washington University in St. Louis
Michelle Ann Williams (M.S. 1986), dean of the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professors and scholars
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham (Ph.D. 1973), pioneer in lithium, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and lithium-air batteries
Saleem Ali (B.S 1994), Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware
David Autor (B.A. 1989), economics professor at MIT focused on the effects of technology on the workplace
Arnaud Blin , French historian and political scientist
Martha Constantine-Paton (B.S. 1969), founding member of
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Ram Dass (B.A. 1952), aka Richard Alpert, former
Harvard psychology professor involved with the
Harvard Psilocybin Project
Robert Daum , director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at the
Vancouver School of Theology
Jay Famiglietti (B.S. 1982), professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Rolf Faste (M.S. 1971), industrial designer and professor at
Stanford University
Lewis M. Feldstein , co-chairman of the
Saguaro Seminar and President of the
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Matt Glaser , former chair of the string department at the
Berklee College of Music , jazz and bluegrass violinist
Alan L. Gropman (Ph.D., 1975), professor of history and grand strategy,
National Defense University
Thomas L. Hopkins , progressive education professor and theorist
Joi Ito , CEO of
Creative Commons and former executive director of
MIT Media Lab
Robert Kayen (B.S. 1981), professor of civil engineering at
University of California, Berkeley , previously
University of California, Los Angeles
Jill Lepore (B.A. 1987), historian and professor at
Harvard University
Julie Livingston , one of thirty-four "genius"
MacArthur Fellows in 2013, for her research at
Rutgers University
Mahmood Mamdani (M.A. 1968, M.A.L.D. 1969), African political expert and professor
Frederick Nelson (B.S. 1954), mechanical engineer and professor
Padraig O'Malley , professor of international studies specializing in the problems of divided societies
Martin Theodore Orne ,
psychiatry and
psychology professor and researcher
Eric Rubin (M.D./Ph.D. 1990), chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Herbert Charles Sanborn (1873–1967), received a master's degree from Tufts College in 1897; served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at
Vanderbilt University 1921–1942
Norman Wengert , political scientist and professor
Art
Marion Boyd Allen (attended 1902–09), painter
David Armstrong , photographer
David Aronson , painter, sculptor; Emeritus Professor of Art,
Boston University
Art School Cheerleaders , performance art troupe
Will Barnet (attended 1928–1930), painter and printmaker
Kaiju Big Battel , performance art troupe
Carol Beckwith , photographer, author, and artist
Ture Bengtz , painter/printmaker, teacher
Frank Weston Benson (diploma, 1883), painter
Seamus Blackley , video game developer
Sheila Blair (B.A. 1970), art historian
Ruben Bolling , aka Ken Fisher, nationally syndicated cartoonist
Jan Brett (attended 1969–70), illustrator
[2]
Margaret Fitzhugh Browne , painter
David Buckley (MFA 1977), painter, former musician with the Barracudas
Lisa Bufano , performance artist
Al Capp (non-degreed), cartoonist of Li'l Abner
Marie Cosindas (attended 1947–50 and 1955–56), photographer
Holly Coulis (M.F.A., 1998), painter
Allan Rohan Crite (diploma, 1936), painter
Taylor Davis , plywood sculptor
Adio diBiccari , sculptor
Philip-Lorca diCorcia , photographer
Jim Dine (attended 1950–53 and 1955–58), painter and printmaker
Omer Fast (BFA, 1995), video artist
Zach Feuer (BFA 1996–2000), art dealer
Margaret Henderson Floyd , art historian and author of Henry Hobson Richardson and other books on architectural history
Esther Geller (1921), painter
Kahlil Gibran (attended 1940–43), painter/sculptor
Nan Goldin (diploma, 1977; fifth year certificate, 1978), photographer
William Snelling Hadaway , artist, attended 1890s
William Melton Halsey (1935–1939, recipient of William Paige Fellowship), painter and sculptor
[3]
Doc Hammer (briefly attended), painter
Todd Hido , photographer
Nancy Holt (B.A. 1960), artist and sculptor
Susan Howe (1961), poet, scholar, essayist and critic
Joan Jonas (attended 1958–61), performance artist
Lois Mailou Jones (diploma, 1927), painter
Tom Jung , graphic designer and illustrator
Ellsworth Kelly (diploma, 1948), painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Eleanor de Laittre , artist
Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky , painter, teacher
Mira Lehr , painter
May Hallowell Loud (attended 1879–83), painter
Jim McNitt , mixed-media painter and photographer
F. Luis Mora , artist and illustrator
Mark Morrisroe , photographer
Laurel Nakadate , video artist and photographer
Sally Pierone (attended 1940–1942), artist
Larry Poons (attended 1957–58), painter
Liz Prince (2002–2007), comic book artist,
Ignatz Award winner
Richard Scarry (diploma, 1942), illustrator
Doug and Mike Starn (diploma, 1984; fifth year certificate, 1985), photographers and performance artists
Frank Stout (1949), painter
Tom Sutton , illustrator and comic book artist
Edmund Tarbell (diploma, 1882), painter
Wallace Tripp (attended 1960, 1964), illustrator
Cy Twombly (diploma, 1949), painter, sculptor, printmaker
John A. Wilson , sculptor
Peter Wolf , painter, singer
Levni Yilmaz , animator and cartoonist
Architecture
Business
Yusuf Hassan Abdi (M.A.), former director of
IRIN
Peter Ackerman , managing director of Rockport Capital
Vikram Akula (B.A. 1990), founder and CEO of
SKS Microfinance
Dan Barber (B.A. 1992), chef and co-owner of Blue Hill Restaurant
John Bello (B.A. 1968), founder and former CEO of
SoBe Beverages and former President of
NFL Properties
Samuel T. Byrne , founder of
CrossHarbor Capital Partners and owner of the
Yellowstone Club
Dov Charney (attended), CEO and founder of
American Apparel
Charles S. Cohen (B.A. 1974), real estate developer and film producer
William Cummings (B.A. 1958), head of the Cummings Foundation, one of the largest in New England, with over $2 billion in assets
Susan Decker (B.S. 1984), former President of
Yahoo !, Inc.
Dick Dietrich (B.A. 1968), co-founder and CEO of GED Integrated Glass Solutions
Jamie Dimon (B.A. 1978), CEO of
JP Morgan Chase Corporation
Peter R. Dolan (B.A. 1978), former CEO of
Bristol-Myers Squibb
John J. Donovan , entrepreneur, founder of
Cambridge Technology Partners
Ben duPont (B.S. 1986), businessman, son of
Pete du Pont
Andrew Fastow , former CFO of
Enron
Lea Fastow née Weingarten, former
Enron assistant treasurer and wife of
Andrew Fastow
Seth Godin (B.S. 1979), marketing expert and founder of
Yoyodyne and
Squidoo
Bernard Marshall Gordon , former president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company; inventor, holds over 30 patents
Jonathan Greenblatt , CEO of
GOOD Magazine and co-founder of
Ethos water
Jacqueline Hernandez (B.A. 1988), president of
Combate Americas , and CEO of
Telemundo Media
Eduardo Hochschild , chairman of
Hochschild Mining
[4]
Robert Hormats (B.A. 1965, M.A. 1966, M.A.L.D. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), vice chairman of
Goldman Sachs International
Meg Hourihan , co-founder of
Pyra Labs , creator of
Blogger
Jeff Kindler (B.A. 1977), CEO of
Pfizer Inc., former Vice President of
General Electric Co. and Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations at
McDonald's
Ellen J. Kullman (B.S. 1978), ex-CEO of
DuPont and an adviser on President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
Jim Manzi , former president, chairman, and CEO of
Lotus Development Corporation
John T. McCarthy (B.A. 1968, M.A. 1973), chairman of
ING Group Turkey
Harold McGraw III (B.A. 1972), president and CEO of
McGraw-Hill Companies; Chairman of the
Business Roundtable
Umberto Milletti , CEO and co-founder of
InsideView and co-founder of
DigitalThink
Soichiro Minami , Japanese businessman and billionaire who founded job search and human resources software firm Visional
Susan Morse (B.A. 1969), first female president of the
Olympic Club
Khaldoon Al Mubarak (B.S.), CEO of
Mubadala Development Company and chairman of
Manchester City F.C.
John Martin Mugar , retired chairman and president of
Star Market
Andrew M. Murstein , founder, board member, president, and largest shareholder of Medallion Financial
Joseph Neubauer (B.S. 1963), former CEO and current chairman of the board of
ARAMARK Corporation
Pierre Omidyar (B.S. 1988), founder of
eBay
Roy Raymond , founder of
Victoria's Secret lingerie retail stores
Ali Sabancı , member of the
Sabancı family , chairman of
Pegasus Airlines , Desas, and Esaslı Gıda, and former head of projects at
Sabancı Holding
Scott Sanborn (B.A. 1992), CEO and President of
LendingClub
Monty Sarhan , CEO and editor-in-chief of
Cracked Entertainment, vice president of
Viacom
Anthony Scaramucci (B.A. 1986), founder of
SkyBridge Capital
Thomas Schmidheiny , billionaire and entrepreneur
Joel Simkhai (B.A. 1998), CEO and founder of
Grindr and
Blendr
Jeff Stibel (B.A. 1995), CEO of
Web.com
Richard F. Syron (Ph.D. 1971), former chairman and CEO of the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Jonathan Tisch (B.A. 1976), billionaire chairman and CEO of
Loews Hotels , co-owner of the
New York Giants
Janice Savin Williams , founder and Senior Principal at Williams Capital Group
Walter B. Wriston (M.A. 1942), chairman and CEO of
Citicorp /
Citibank 1967–1984
Crime
Diplomacy
Jonathan Addleton (M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1991), U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia (2009–2012)
Rafeeuddin Ahmed (M.A. 1956), former UN Under-Secretary-General and Pakistan foreign service officer
Shafi U Ahmed , Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Hady Amr (B.A. 1988), special representative for Palestinian affairs, policy analyst and author specializing in U.S.-Arab relations
Anthony Banbury (B.A. 1986, M.A. 1992), United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support
C. Fred Bergsten (M.A. 1962, M.A.L.D. 1963, Ph.D. 1969), former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the
U.S. Treasury Department and senior fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and
Council on Foreign Relations
Barbara Bodine (M.A. 1971), former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait
Richard Boucher (B.A. 1973), U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs , former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and chief spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, ambassador to Cyprus, and
Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong
Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生) , prominent Hong Kong politician; both the first woman and the first Chinese person to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry , current
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
Musa Javed Chohan , former Pakistani Ambassador to France
J. Adam Ereli (M.A. 1989), U.S. Ambassador to
Bahrain
Jeffrey Feltman (M.A.L.D. 1983), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to
Lebanon
Michael Hammer (M.A. 1987), ambassador from the United States to
Chile
John E. Herbst , U.S. State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, former U.S. Ambassador to
Ukraine and
Uzbekistan
Wolfgang Ischinger (M.A. 1973), former German Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K.
Roberta S. Jacobson (M.A.L.D 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2016–present)
Ismat Jahan , Bangladeshi Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, former ambassador to the
Netherlands
Michelle Kwan (M.A.L.D. 2011), U.S. Ambassador to Belize (2022–present) and former Olympic figure skater
Mark W. Libby (B.A. 1992), US diplomat
Liu Xiaoming , former
Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Sarah-Ann Lynch (M.A. 1990), US Ambassador to Guyana (2019–Present)
Edwin W. Martin , former
U.S. Ambassador to Burma and Consul General of the United States in Hong Kong
David McKean (M.A.L.D. 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg (2016–present); Director of Policy Planning (2013–2015)
Masud Bin Momen , Bangladeshi foreign secretary
General
William T. Monroe (M.A. 1974), U.S. Ambassador to
Bahrain
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1961),
U.S. Senator from New York (1977–2001) and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and India
Bernd Mützelburg , German special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former German ambassador to India
Thomas R. Pickering (M.A. 1954), former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the United Nations, Israel, India, and Russia
Mitchell Reiss (M.A.L.D. 1980), former
Director of Policy Planning at the
United States Department of State and
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland , current President of
Washington College
Iqbal Riza , former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peacekeeping and Pakistani diplomat
Klaus Scharioth (M.A., M.A.L.D., Ph.D. 1978), German Ambassador to the United States
Konrad Seitz (M.A. 1967), former German Ambassador to
India , Italy, and China
Alan Solomont (B.A. 1970), U.S. Ambassador to Spain (2009–2013)
Shashi Tharoor (M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, Ph.D. 1979), former UN Under-Secretary-General and Indian Minister for External Affairs, current member of Indian Parliament
Malcolm Toon (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1939), former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Israel, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia
David Welch (M.A. 1977), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, former Ambassador to
Egypt
Hassan Wirajuda (M.A. 1984), Foreign Minister of Indonesia
Entertainment
Film and television
Hank Azaria (B.A. 1988), actor and voice actor most famous for his work on
The Simpsons and various films
Jessica Biel (attended), film actress
David W. Burke (B.A. 1957), former President of
CBS News
Rob Burnett (B.A. 1984), Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of
Late Night with David Letterman , President and CEO of
Worldwide Pants
David Costabile (B.A. 1989), actor, known for his recurring roles on
The Wire ,
Flight of the Conchords , and
Breaking Bad
Chiara de Luca (B.A. 2001), French-Italian actress
Dom DeLuise (attended), actor, most famous for his work in
Blazing Saddles and
Space Balls and as host of the television show
Candid Camera
Lou DiBella , founder/CEO of Dibella Entertainment, owner of the
Connecticut Defenders , former head of programming for
HBO Sports , TV/film producer, and boxing promoter
David Faber (B.A. 1985),
CNBC market analyst and host of
Squawk on the Street
Adam Felber , political satirist, actor, radio personality, and humorist
Nicole Fiscella ,
Gossip Girl actress and model
Peter Gallagher (B.A. 1977), Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actor, best known for his roles in
The O.C. ,
American Beauty , and
Mr. Deeds
Joshua Gates , host of
Syfy channel's
Destination Truth and the
Discovery Channel 's
Expedition Unknown
Cary Granat (B.A. 1990), co-founder and CEO of
Walden Media , former president of
Miramax 's Dimension Division
Jeff Greenstein (B.A. 1984), Emmy Award-winning TV writer and executive producer of
Will & Grace
Susan Haskell (B.S. 1985), Emmy Award-winning Canadian actress,
One Life to Live
Joanna Hausmann (B.A. 2011), comedian and correspondent of
Bill Nye Saves the World
Dan Hedaya (B.A. 1962), film actor, best known for
Clueless and
Blood Simple
William Hurt (B.A. 1972), Academy Award-winning actor, well known for roles in films such as
Kiss of the Spider Woman ,
Broadcast News ,
A History of Violence , and
The Incredible Hulk
Kara Kennedy (B.A. 1983), filmmaker, social activist, daughter of
Ted Kennedy
Brian Koppelman (B.A. 1988), screenwriter (
Runaway Jury ,
Ocean's Thirteen , and
The Girlfriend Experience ) and producer
Stephen Kunken , TV and film actor
Christopher Lawford (B.A. 1977), son of
Peter Lawford , author, actor, and activist
Steven Lisberger (B.F.A. 1974), director of
Tron
Lilia Luciano , Puerto Rican actress and TV reporter working in Spanish-language television in the United States
David Lynch (attended 1964–65), filmmaker
Stephen Macht (M.A. 1967), TV and film actor
Ben Mankiewicz (B.A. 1989), TV personality and host of
Turner Classic Movies
Niels Mueller , filmmaker (
The Assassination of Richard Nixon )
Ameesha Patel (B.A. 1997
[5] ),
Bollywood actress
Oliver Platt (B.A. 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG-nominated actor (
Huff ,
Frost/Nixon ,
2012 )
Sendhil Ramamurthy (B.A. 1996), actor on
Heroes
Shari Redstone , founder and chairwoman of
ViacomCBS Inc. and president of
National Amusements
Peter Roth (B.A. 1972), CEO of
Warner Brothers Television
Melissa Russo , TV news anchor for
WNBC-TV News in New York City
Joshua Seftel (B.A. 1990), filmmaker (
War Inc. )
Justine Shapiro , movie and TV actress; co-host of
Globe Trekker
Neal Shapiro (B.A. 1980), Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station
WNET /
WLIW in New York City; former president of
NBC News
Atika Shubert , Jerusalem bureau chief for
CNN
Ben Silverman (B.A. 1992), co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio
Laura Silverman , actress on
The Sarah Silverman Program and sister of comedian
Sarah Silverman
David Sonenberg (B.A. 1968), Academy Award-winning movie producer; founder and head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd
Will Tiao , TV actor
Steve Tisch (B.A. 1971), Academy Award-winning producer and co-owner of the
New York Giants with his brother
Jonathan Tisch
Meredith Vieira (B.A. 1975), TV host of
The Today Show , formerly of
The View
Aury Wallington (B.A. 1991), screenwriter and novelist
Rainn Wilson (attended), actor and co-star of
The Office
Gary Winick (B.A. 1984), film director (
Tadpole ,
Charlotte's Web ) and producer
Music and dance
Dan Avidan , comedian and singer, known for his work on
Ninja Sex Party and
Game Grumps
Matt Ballinger , actor and boy band singer in
Dream Street
Garnett Bruce (B.A. 1989), opera director
Alex Caplow , lead singer of
Magic Man
Tracy Chapman (B.A. 1987), multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
Slaid Cleaves , folk musician
All members of
Crumb , psychedelic rock band
Paul DeGeorge (B.S.Ch.E. 2001), member of the band
Harry and the Potters
Ezra Furman , frontwoman of the band
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons
Adam Gardner (B.A. 1995), guitarist and vocalist for the band
Guster
Matt Glaser , jazz and bluegrass violinist, former chair of the string department at the
Berklee College of Music
Don Grolnick (B.A. 1968), jazz pianist and composer
Guster , alternative rock band
Jester Hairston (B.A. 1929), composer, conductor, and actor
Leslie Hall (2000–2003), frontwoman for
Leslie and the Ly's
Juliana Hatfield (2012), musician
Alan Hovhaness , composer
Staś Kmieć , theater and dance choreographer, dancer, and the foremost U.S. authority on Polish folk dance and culture
James S. Levine (B.A. 1996), film and television composer
Erik Lindgren (B.A. 1976), composer and musician
Ryan Miller (B.A. 1995), lead singer and guitarist for rock band Guster
Jim Nollman , composer, musician, and author involved with animal communications
Charles North (B.A. 1962), poet
Daniel Pritzker (B.A. 1981), billionaire guitarist and songwriter for
Sonia Dada , member of the
Pritzker family
Members of
the Rare Occasions met at Tufts University.
Pete Robbins , jazz saxophonist
Jeff Saltzman , drummer for
Allegaeon
Eric Schwartz , folk singer/songwriter
Darrell Scott (B.A. 1988), country singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Deke Sharon (B.A. 1991, double degree with
New England Conservatory Of Music ),
a cappella singer, composer, arranger, and producer
Both members of
Timeflies , pop/hip hop duo
Malcolm Travis (attended 1974–1978), musician
Michael "Mudcat" Ward , blues bassist, pianist and songwriter
Government
Tom Casey (B.A., M.A.L.D.), Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the
U.S. State Department
Leo Otis Colbert (B.S. 1907), third director of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and rear admiral
Richard N. Goodwin (B.A. 1953), former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, political speechwriter, author, and playwright
Admiral
Jonathan Howe (B.A. 1980), former U.S.
Deputy National Security Advisor
Matthew Levitt (M.A., Ph.D.), former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Winston Lord (M.A. 1960),
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, president of the Council on Foreign Relations
Susan K. Martin (B.A. 1959), director of the
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
Gina McCarthy (M.S. 1981), administrator of the
EPA under President Obama
Peter Navarro (B.A. 1972), director of the
Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy
Phyllis E. Oakley (M.A. 1957), U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration (1994–97) and Intelligence and Research (1997–99)
Farah Pandith , special representative to Muslim communities for the U.S. Department of State
Tara D. Sonenshine (B.A. 1981), U.S.
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs for
Barack Obama 's administration
Bill Thompson (B.A. 1974),
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate
C. David Welch ,
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and regional president of
Bechtel
Journalism
Law
Nancy Atlas (B.S. 1971), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
André Birotte Jr. (B.S. 1987), judge on the
United States District Court for the Central District of California
John L. Carroll , former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama and Dean of
Samford University 's
Cumberland School of Law
R. Guy Cole, Jr. (B.A. 1972), federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ralph Adam Fine ,
Wisconsin Court of Appeals judge
Faith S. Hochberg (B.A. 1972), federal judge on the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and former deputy assistant secretary for law enforcement at the
U.S. Department of Treasury
Timothy Lewis (B.A. 1976), former federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Nancy E. Rice (B.A. 1972), former chief justice of the
Colorado Supreme Court
John G. Sargent (B.A. 1887), former
Attorney General of the United States
Warren Silver ,
Maine Supreme Court justice
Norman H. Stahl (B.A. 1952), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Laura Denvir Stith ,
Missouri Supreme Court judge
Literature
Elliot Ackerman (B.A. M.A.), author
Fawzia Afzal-Khan (M.A., Ph.D.), author and professor
Jessica Anderson (B.A. 1994), author
Ian C. Ballon , author of several Internet law books, including a four-volume treatise
Cathy Bao Bean , author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual
Christopher Castellani , author of Maddalena trilogy and 2014
Guggenheim Fellow
John Ciardi (B.A. 1938), poet and translator
Cid Corman , poet, translator and poetry journal editor
George Michael Cuomo (B.A. 1952), author
Pieretta Dawn , author
Barbara Delinsky (B.A. 1967), bestselling author
Juan Manuel García Passalacqua , Puerto Rican policy analyst and author
Christopher Golden , horror, fantasy, and suspense novelist
Cary Granat (B.A. 1990), co-founder and CEO of
Walden Media , former president of
Miramax 's Dimension Division
Han Bi-ya , Korean activist, writer
[6]
Bette Bao Lord (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1960), author and civic activist
William MacDonald , prolific Christian author
Gregory Maguire (Ph.D. 1990), author of the novels
Wicked and
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Maliha Masood , author
Michael McDowell , author and screenwriter
Daniel Paisner (B.A. 1982), author best known for his work as a ghostwriter and collaborator
Jane Lippitt Patterson (1829–1919), writer and editor
Anita Shreve (B.A. 1968), author
Darin Strauss (B.A. 1992), novelist and winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award
Wylie Sypher (M.A. 1929), writer
Mary L. Trump , author of
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (2020)
Nathanael West (did not finish), author and screenwriter
Ellen Emerson White , writer
Tiphanie Yanique , fiction writer, poet, and essayist
Military
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. , chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ex-commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Forces
General
Joseph P. Hoar (B.A. 1956), general and former commander-in-chief of the
United States Central Command
Susan Livingstone (M.A.L.D. 1981), former acting
U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment
Lieutenant Colonel
Murray Sanders ,
U.S. Army Medical Corps officer nominated for
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Admiral
James G. Stavridis ,
NATO 's
Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of the
U.S. European Command
Admiral
Patrick M. Walsh ,
Commander of the
U.S. Pacific Fleet , former U.S.
Vice Chief of Naval Operations and
Blue Angels aviator
Nobel laureates
Politics
Heads of state
U.S. governors
U.S. Senate
U.S. Congress
Jeb Bradley (B.A. 1974),
U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Joe Courtney (B.A. 1975), U.S. Representative from Connecticut
Dan Crenshaw (B.A. 2006), U.S. Representative from Texas
Peter DeFazio (B.A. 1969), U.S. Representative from Oregon
Thomas Kean, Jr. (M.A. 1997), U.S. Representative from New Jersey
Cynthia McKinney (M.A. 1979), U.S. Representative from Georgia
John Olver (M.S. 1956), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Frank Pallone (M.A. 1974), U.S. Representative from New Jersey since 1988
William Leon St. Onge (B.A. 1941), U.S. Representative from Connecticut and mayor of Putnam
John Philip Swasey , U.S. Representative from Maine
Foreign officials
Bolaji Akinyemi (M.A. 1965, M.A.L.D. 1966), Nigerian Minister of External Affairs 1985–1987
Kow Nkensen Arkaah (B.A. 1952), Vice President of
Ghana 1993–1997
Michael Dobbs , former chief of staff of the
Conservative Party (United Kingdom) and political thriller novelist
Colette Flesch ,
Luxembourg politician and Olympic fencing competitor
Jean Francois-Poncet (M.A. 1948), French politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1981
Dimitris Kairidis , Greek politician and Minister of Migration and Asylum
Kostas Achileas Karamanlis , Greek politician and former Minister of Transportation
Olga Kefalogianni (M.A. 2006), Greek politician and Minister of Tourism
Shahryar Khan , former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, author
John Kuan , former president of the
Examination Yuan of the Republic of China
Jeffrey Lam , member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong and managing director of Forward Winsome Industries
Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar , Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice
Mbuyamu I. Matungulu (Ph.D. 1986), former
DRC Minister of Finance, senior economist at the
International Monetary Fund (
IMF ),
Phạm Bình Minh , Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam
Vardan Oskanyan , former Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Surakiart Sathirathai , former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Finance Minister of
Thailand
Antoinette Sayeh (M.A. 1980, M.A.L.D. 1982, Ph.D. 1985), director of the African Department at the
International Monetary Fund , former Finance Minister of
Liberia
Radmila Sekerinska (M.A. 2007), deputy prime minister of Macedonia and minister of defense of Macedonia
Abdulla Shahid ,
President of the United Nations General Assembly
Godfrey Smith (M.A. 2002), Belizean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management
Shashi Tharoor (M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, Ph.D. 1979), Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and prolific author
Edson Zvobgo (B.A. 1964), founder of
Zimbabwe 's ruling party
Zanu-PF and former Minister of Justice
State officials
Phil Bartlett (B.A. 1998),
Maine Senate
Francis X. Bellotti (B.A. 1947), former Lieutenant Governor and
Attorney General of Massachusetts
Horace T. Cahill , former
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Elmer Hewitt Capen (B.A. 1860), former member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives and third president of Tufts College
Anthony Cortese , former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection; environmental activist and researcher
Benjamin Downing , Democratic State Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2006 at age 24
Steve Dyer , former member of
Ohio House of Representatives 2007–2010
Michael E. Festa (B.A. 1976), former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs
Dan Gelber (B.A. 1982), member of the
Florida Senate and 38th
Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida
Jack Hart (B.A. 1991), member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
Albert W. Harvey (attended),
United States Marshal for the
District of Vermont
[7]
Jon Hecht , member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Frank Hornstein , Minnesota State Representative, member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party; elected for the first time in 2002
George Keverian ,
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1985–1991
Kristina Roegner , member of
Ohio House of Representatives
Carl M. Sciortino , member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives 2004–2014, Democratic Party
Steve Simon (B.A. 1992),
Minnesota Secretary of State 2015–present, member of the
Minnesota House of Representatives 2005–2015
Keith L. T. Wright (B.A. 1977), member of the
New York State Assembly (1992–present)
City officials
Nina Albert (B.S.), acting deputy mayor of
Washington, D.C. for planning and economic development (2023–present)
Charles Neal Barney (B.A. 1895), former mayor of
Lynn, Massachusetts
Kirk Caldwell , mayor of
Honolulu, Hawaii
Richard B. Coolidge (B.A. 1902), former mayor of
Medford, Massachusetts
Philip Levine , 37th
Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida
Patrick O. Murphy , former mayor of
Lowell, Massachusetts
Charles Yancey (B.S. 1970), member of Boston City Council (1984–2015)
Other
Doug Bailey , political strategist who founded
The Hotline and
Unity08
Jay Byrne , political strategist and former White House spokesperson
HRH Prince
Cedza Dlamini of
Swaziland ; human rights activist; grandson of
Nelson Mandela
Michael Dobbs , former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative Party and political thriller novelist
Mouin Rabbani , Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs
Lew Rockwell ,
libertarian political activist and Chairman of the
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Simon Rosenberg , founder of the
New Democrat Network , former candidate for chairman of the
DNC
Geng Shuang (M.A. in International Relations 2006), Chinese diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations
William L. Uanna , security officer,
Manhattan Project and
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Philip D. Zelikow (M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1995), Counselor of the U.S. State Department and executive director of the
9/11 Commission
Pulitzer Prize winners
Leslie Gelb (B.A. 1959), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
Erin Kelly , professor of philosophy, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Chasing Me to My Grave , co-written with subject Winfred Rembert
Mark Krikorian , executive director of
Center for Immigration Studies and conservative pundit
Maxine Kumin , poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981–1982
Philip Levine , poet and National Book Award recipient
April Saul , photojournalist, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Exploratory Journalism in 1997
Edward Schumacher-Matos (M.A.), American-Colombian journalist, part of the staff of
Philadelphia Inquirer who won Pulitzer in 1980
Martin Sherwin , Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
Natalie Wolchover (Bachelors in Physics, 2008), science journalist, won the 2022
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Gordon S. Wood (B.A. 1955), professor of American history at
Brown University
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham (Ph.D. 1973), pioneer in lithium, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and lithium-air batteries; received Tufts Most Outstanding Achievement and Services Award in 2017
Stephen Moulton Babcock , agricultural chemist who pioneered the development of nutrition as a science
Reid Barton , mathematician, winner of the
Morgan Prize , and successful performer of the
International Science Olympiads
Seamus Blackley , game developer who helped create the Microsoft
Xbox
Frank N. Blanchard (B.S. 1913), influential herpetologist and zoologist
Harold Bornstein , doctor and former personal physician to
Donald Trump
Vannevar Bush (B.S., M.S. 1913), engineer and scientist noted for his work on the atom bomb and early computing
Sean B. Carroll (Ph.D. 1983), influential researcher and professor of
evolutionary developmental biology
Anthony Cortese , environmental activist/researcher and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Bernard Marshall Gordon , inventor who holds over thirty patents; former president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company
Frederick Grinnell (Ph.D. 1970), cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
Rick Hauck (B.S. 1962), astronaut
Bartholomew W. Hogan (M.D. 1925), former
Surgeon General of the United States Navy and Deputy Medical Director of the
American Psychiatric Association
Hassan Jawahery (Ph.D. 1981), American-Iranian physicist and former spokesperson for the
BaBar experiment
Sara Murray Jordan (M.D. 1921), gastroenterologist
Charles Kelman (B.S. 1950), ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, and entertainer, known as the "father of
photoemulsification "
Victor A. McKusick , founding editor of the database
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Helen Abbott Michael , organic chemist
Frederick Stark Pearson , electrical engineer and businessman
Mark Plotkin (Ph.D. 1989), ethnobotanist and expert on rainforest ecosystems
Victor Prather (M.D. 1952),
US Navy surgeon, set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with
Malcolm Ross in 1961
John Reif (B.S. 1973), computer science, nanotechnology, and DNA researcher and professor
Keith Ross , NYU computer science professor; dean of engineering NYU Shanghai; ACM and IEEE Fellow
Ellery Schempp (B.S. 1962), physicist and political activist
Mary Jane Shultz , Tufts professor and researcher in physical, environmental, materials and surface chemistry
Phillip Hagar Smith (B.S. 1928), inventor of the
Smith chart , a graphical aid to assist in solving problems with
transmission lines and matching circuits
John Q. Trojanowski (M.D./Ph.D. 1976), neurological researcher and professor specializing in degenerative diseases
Frankie Trull , lobbyist and science advocate focusing on laboratory animal testing; president of the
National Association for Biomedical Research ,
Foundation for Biomedical Research , and Policy Directions Inc.
Loring W. Tu , Taiwanese-American mathematician working in algebraic topology and geometry
Norbert Wiener (B.A. 1909), mathematician known as the founder of
cybernetics
Esther Wilkins , dentist and author of Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist
Ronald C. Wornick (born 1932), food scientist; founder of the Wornick Company, selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to mass-produce meals
Sports
Michael Aresco (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1973), Commissioner of the
American Athletic Conference
Bob Backus (B.A. 1951), Olympic track and field athlete who set world records in the
hammer throw
Andrea Baldini (born 1985), Italian foil fencer
John Bello (B.A. 1968), former President of NFL Properties
Dick Berggren (M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), motorsports announcer, racecar driver, and magazine editor
Wally Clement , professional baseball player
Harrie Dadmun , professional
football player
Lou DiBella , boxing promoter; founder and CEO of Dibella Entertainment; former head of programming for
HBO Sports ; TV/film producer; owner of the minor league baseball team the
Connecticut Defenders
Dan Doyle , executive director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at
Trinity College
Frederick M. Ellis , athlete, coach, professor, and head football coach at Tufts 1946–1952
Carl Etelman (1900–1963), football back and coach
Colette Flesch , Luxembourgian politician and three-time Olympic fencing competitor
Chuck Greenberg (B.A. 1982), sports
attorney ; chairman and founder of the Greenberg Sports Group
William Grinnell , football player and former head football coach at
Northeastern University
Doc Haggerty , professional football player
Doc Hazleton , professional baseball player
Zander Kirkland , Olympic sailor
Tony Massarotti (B.A. 1989), sportswriter for The Boston Globe ; author
David Mendelblatt , yachtsman and ophthalmologist
Mark Mendelblatt , yachtsman, three-time college All-American, silver medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games and 2004 Laser World Championships
Khaldoon Al Mubarak (B.S.), chairman of Manchester City F.C. and CEO of Mubadala Development Company
Percy S. Prince , former
Louisiana Tech head football and baseball coach
Harry Orman Robinson , former head coach of
American football at UT-Austin and UMissouri-Columbia
Wendy Selig-Prieb (B.A. 1982), former CEO of the
Milwaukee Brewers
Heinie Stafford , professional baseball player
Genevra Stone , Olympic rower
Ed Tapscott (B.A. 1975), former president and CEO of the
Charlotte Bobcats , head coach of the NBA's
Washington Wizards
Jonathan Tisch (B.A. 1976), co-owner of the
New York Giants and chairman and CEO of
Loews Hotels
Shane Waldron ,
tight ends coach for the
New England Patriots
Art Williams , Major League Baseball player
Peter Wylde (B.A. 1989), Olympic gold medalist in team horse jumping
Fictional alumni
Scott Adler, recurring character in
Tom Clancy 's
Jack Ryan book series
Elaine Benes , played by
Julia Louis-Dreyfus , from the television show
Seinfeld , who described it as her "safety school"
Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh , played by
Jill Hennessy , from the television show
Crossing Jordan
Jennifer Melfi , played by
Lorraine Bracco , from the television show
The Sopranos
Dr. Susan Silverman, central character in
Robert B. Parker 's
Spenser book series, as revealed in Sudden Mischief
Brad Sloan, played by
Ben Stiller , the titular character of the film
Brad's Status
Zachary Vaughn, character in one episode of
The Simpsons
Berg, Pete, and Sharon, the three principal characters of the sitcom
Two Guys and a Girl
Mamie-Claire, played by
Heather Lind , from the film
Mistress America
Faculty
Nobel Laureates
Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), physicist, winner of the 1979
Nobel Prize in Medicine , inventor of the
CAT scan
Mohamed Elbaradei , winner of the 2005
Nobel Peace Prize ; former
Vice-President of Egypt
Wassily Leontief , winner of the 1973
Nobel Prize in Economics ;
GDAE advisory board member and researcher 1993–1999
[8] *
Mario Molina , winner of the 1995
Nobel Prize in Chemistry ; GDAE advisory board member
[9]
Paul Samuelson , winner of the 1970
Nobel Prize in Economics ; part-time professor of international economic relations at Fletcher (1945)
Amartya Sen , winner of the 1998
Nobel Prize in Economics ; GDAE advisory board member
[10]
Rainer Weiss , astrophysicist, winner of the 2017
Nobel Prize in Physics
Pulitzer Prize winners
Others
Tadatoshi Akiba , mathematics professor (1972–1986), Japanese politician and activist
Frederick Warren Allen (1907–1954, Emeritus), sculptor, teacher for 50 years, 30 as Head of Sculpture
Nalini Ambady , social psychologist, famous for pioneering and coining
thin-slicing
Jody Azzouni , logician, philosopher of mathematics
Lawrence S. Bacow , economist
Nancy Bauer , philosopher
Hugo Adam Bedau , ethicist, editor of
Civil Disobedience : Theory and Practice (1969) and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
Jamshed Bharucha , Provost and Senior Vice President, Professor of Psychology, Music, and Neuroscience (2002–2011)
Stephen W. Bosworth , Dean of the Fletcher School, served as Secretary of State Clinton's
Special Representative for North Korea Policy
Jay Cantor , author, screenwriter
Lauro Cavazos , former U.S.
Secretary of Education and president of
Texas Tech University
Antonia Chayes , Professor of International Politics and Law, former
United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
Frank Dengler (c. 1877), sculptor, instructor
Daniel C. Dennett , philosopher, author of
Darwin's Dangerous Idea and
Consciousness Explained
John J. Donovan , entrepreneur, assistant professor of pediatrics (1973–1983)
Michael Downing , writer (Perfect Agreement , Breakfast with Scot )
Daniel W. Drezner , Professor of International Politics; regular featured columnist in Foreign Policy magazine
Lee Edelman , English professor, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
David Elkind , Professor Emeritus of Child Development, author of The Hurried Child , Giants in the Nursery , The Power of Play , and other bestsellers
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto , history professor
John Galvin (1995–2000), General and former Dean of the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
[11]
Charles Grafly , sculptor, head of modeling, 1917 to 1929
Frank Pierrepont Graves , historian of education
Joseph Igersheimer (1879–1965), German ophthalmologist, famous in Turkey
Ray Jackendoff , linguist, author of
Foundations of Language
Ayesha Jalal , historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar
Sheldon Krimsky
Alfred Church Lane , geologist
Louis Lasagna , former Dean of the
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the
School of Medicine , known for introducing the modern
Hippocratic Oath
Franklin M. Loew , former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine
Linda Datcher Loury , former professor of economics
Zella Luria ,
psychologist and
feminist , known for her pioneering work on the development of
gender identity
David J. Malan , former professor of computer science,
Gordon Mckay Professor of Computer Science at
Harvard University , known for teaching
CS50
Jerold Mande , former professor of practice (2017–2020); former Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the
USDA (2009–2011)
William Moulton Marston , died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of
Wonder Woman
William C. Martel , Associate Professor of International Security Studies
Gilbert E. Metcalf , John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of economics; author of Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America (
Oxford Univ Press )
William Green Miller , Professor and Associate Dean,
United States Ambassador to Ukraine 1993–1998
Haruki Murakami , Japanese author nominated for
Nobel Prize ; writing fellow
Adil Najam , international negotiation and diplomacy
Vali Nasr , Iranian-American academic and scholar; Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California
Raymond S. Nickerson , psychologist and author
Bela Lyon Pratt , sculptor, head of modeling, 1893 to 1917
Diane Souvaine , chair of the
National Science Board
Robert Sternberg , Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
John H. Sununu (Dean of Engineering), governor of
New Hampshire , chief of staff of the White House for G.H.W. Bush
Barry Trimmer , professor of biology; invented (with
David Kaplan ) the world's first soft-bodied robot
Alexander Vilenkin , theoretical physicist
Jonathan Wilson , author
Wayne Winterrowd (1941–2010), horticulturist and author known for his gardens in Southern Vermont
[12]
Chantal Zakari , book artist and graphic designer; faculty
Karl Zerbe , painter, head of the Department of Painting 1937–1955
Honorary degree recipients
Tufts awards honorary degrees to outstanding people since 1858; among them:
[13]
1918:
Ralph D. Mershon (Science),
Joseph Fort Newton (Divinity)
1919:
Calvin Coolidge (Laws),
William Sims (Laws)
1920:
Herbert Hoover (Science),
Charles L. Hutchinson (Laws)
1921:
Evangeline Cory Booth (Arts),
Samuel Capen (Humane Letters),
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (Arts),
Samuel Orace Dunn (Arts),
Frank Pierrepont Graves (Humane Letters),
William Henry Nichols (Science),
John Wingate Weeks (Laws)
1922:
Henry K. Braley (Laws),
Heloise Hersey (Arts),
Louise Homer (Arts),
Leo Rich Lewis (Letters),
Edward Sylvester Morse (Humane Letters)
1923:
Edward Bok (Humane Letters),
Channing H. Cox (Humane Letters),
Cyrus Edwin Dallin (Arts),
Anna Coleman Ladd (Arts),
Angelo Patri (Humane Letters),
Hugh Walpole (Letters)
1924:
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Fine Arts)
1925:
Henry Kimball Hadley (Music),
Edna St. Vincent Millay (Humane Letters)
1926:
Frederick Law Olmsted (Fine Arts)
1927:
Richard E. Byrd (Science),
A. Atwater Kent (Science),
Frank Lahey (Science),
Edith Nourse Rogers (Arts),
John van Schaick Jr. (Letters)
1928:
William Beebe (Science),
Charles Ernest Fay (Laws),
Charles Lawrance (Science),
Eva Le Gallienne (Arts),
John Livingston Lowes (Humane Letters),
Frank Burr Mallory (Science)
1929:
Asa White Kenney Billings (Electrical Engineering),
Benjamin Newhall Johnson (Arts),
Herbert Lord (Laws),
Daniel Gregory Mason (Letters)
1930:
Frank Weston Benson (Arts),
Arthur Dehon Little (Science)
1931:
Margaret Ayer Barnes (Arts),
Marion Edwards Park (Humane Letters),
Stanley Calef Wilson (Laws),
Alfred Worcester (Science)
1932:
George Grey Barnard (Arts),
Vannevar Bush (Science),
Lou Henry Hoover (Arts),
Archibald MacLeish (Arts),
James Grover McDonald (Laws)
1933:
Mabel Wheeler Daniels (Arts),
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Letters),
Marie Danforth Page (Arts)
1934:
James Bryant Conant (Science),
Harold L. Ickes (Laws)
1935:
Carter Glass (Laws),
Francis Russell Hart (Arts),
Harry M. Lydenberg (Letters),
Cornelia Otis Skinner (Arts),
Sarah Wambaugh (Humane Letter)
1936:
Dorothy Thompson (Letters)
1937:
Van Wyck Brooks (Laws),
Leonard Carmichael (Science),
Thomas Edmund Dewey (Laws),
Helen Jerome Eddy (Arts),
Sylvanus Morley (Letters)
1938:
Miller McClintock (Science),
Henry Merritt Wriston (Laws)
1939:
Leo Otis Colbert (Science),
John Foster Dulles (Letters),
George Horace Gallup (Science)
1940:
Francis Henry Taylor (Humane Letters)
1941:
Leason Heberling Adams (Science),
Lillian Hellman (Arts),
George Stewart Miller (Letters),
Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Laws)
1942:
Walter Nash (Laws),
Katharine Elizabeth McBride (Humane Letters),
Leverett Saltonstall (Laws)
1943:
Karl Taylor Compton (Laws),
Joseph Clark Grew (Laws),
Sara Murray Jordan (Science)
1944:
Beardsley Ruml (Laws)
1945:
Arthur William Coolidge (Arts),
John Sloan Dickey (Laws),
Theresa Helburn (Arts),
Eric Johnston (Laws),
Charles Donagh Maginnis (Humane Letters)
1946:
Norbert Wiener (Science),
Laurence Olivier (Fine Arts)
1947:
Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Laws)
1948:
Carl Stephens Ell (Laws)
1949:
Ralph Lowell (Laws)
1950:
Thomas Whittemore (Letters)
1951:
Thomas Dudley Cabot (Humane Letters)
1952:
Henry Chauncey (Science)
1953:
Robert Cutler (Laws)
1954:
John F. Kennedy (Letters)
1955:
Nathan M. Pusey (Letters)
1956:
John T. Blake (Science)
1957:
Earl Warren (Laws)
1958:
Robert F. Kennedy (Laws)
1959:
Robert Frost (Letters)
1960:
Hiram Fong (Laws)
1961:
F. Ray Keyser Jr. (Laws)
1962:
Walter Hallstein (Laws)
1963:
James William Fulbright (Letters),
Lyndon B. Johnson (Letters)
1964:
Charles A. Dana (Humane Letters)
1965:
Jeremy Ingalls (Letters)
1966:
William Scranton (Laws),
Nils Wessell (Laws)
1967:
John F. Collins (Laws),
Abigail Adams Eliot (Humane Letters)
1968:
Daniel Moynihan (Laws)
1969:
Kenneth Bancroft Clark (Humane Letters),
Lee Alvin DuBridge (Science),
Paul A. Freund (Laws),
Howard Nemerov (Letters),
Joseph Silverstein (Music)
1970:
Patricia Roberts Harris (Laws),
Harris Wofford (Laws)
1971:
Arthur Fiedler (Music)
1972:
Jester Hairston (Music)
1976:
John Brademas (Laws),
Matina Horner (Humane Letters),
Virginia Knauer (Laws)
1977:
Irving Selikoff (Science),
B.F. Skinner (Letters),
Malcolm Toon (Laws)
1978:
Victor McKusick (Science),
David Nachmansohn (Science)
1979:
Salvador E. Luria (Science)
1980:
Allan M. Cormack (Science)
1981:
Leo Gross (Laws)
1982:
Alexander R. Todd (Science)
1983:
Sandra Day O'Connor (Letters),
Edward Kennedy (Letters)
1984:
Arthur M. Sackler (Humane Letters),
John Williams (Music)
1985:
Lester R. Brown (Humane Letters),
Finn Brudevold (Science)
1986:
Jane Goodall (Science),
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (Laws)
1987:
Claude Shannon (Science),
Gloria Steinem (Humane Letters)
1988:
Paul Samuelson (Science)
1989:
Stephen Hawking (Science)
1990:
Robert Ballard (Science),
Juan Carlos I of Spain (Laws)
1991:
Yo-Yo Ma (Music),
Moonis Raza (Humane Letters)
1992:
Bernard Marshall Gordon (Science)
1993:
Carlos Fuentes (Letters)
1994:
Ted Koppel (Humane Letters)
1995:
Murray Gell-Mann (Science)
1996:
Anson Chan (Humane Letters)
1997:
Richard Holbrooke (Laws)
1998:
Garry Trudeau (Humane Letters)
1999:
Thomas Schmidheiny (Business Administration)
2000:
Issam Fares (International Public Affairs)
2001:
David McCullough (Humane Letters)
2002:
John DiBiaggio (Letters),
Eugene F. Fama (Science),
Roderick MacKinnon (Science)
2003:
Mario Molina (Science)
2004:
Neil Armstrong (English),
Tracy Chapman (Fine Arts)
2005:
Kostas Karamanlis (Letters)
2006:
Lynn Margulis (Science)
2007:
Michael Bloomberg (Public Service)
2008:
Meredith Vieira (Humane Letters)
2009:
Leslie Gelb (Laws),
Deval Patrick (Laws),
Patricia Q. Stonesifer (Public Service)
2010:
Kristina M. Johnson (Science),
Ann Hobson Pilot (Music),
Gordon Wood (Humane Letters)
2011:
Charles M. Vest (Science),
Geoffrey Canada (Humane Letters),
Jamaica Kincaid (Humane Letters),
Pierre Omidyar (Public Service),
Robert Solow (Science)
[14]
2012:
Eric Greitens (Humane Letters),
Lawrence S. Bacow (Humane Letters),
Bonnie Bassler (Science),
Farooq Kathwari (Public Service)
[15]
2013:
Claude Steele (Humane Letters),
Lois Gibbs (Public Service),
Raymond Sackler (Humane Letters)
[16]
2014:
Anne-Marie Slaughter (Laws),
James Lawson (Public Service),
Jill Lepore (Humane Letters),
Haruki Murakami (Letters),
[17]
James D. Stern (Business Administration)
2015:
Madeleine Albright (Laws),
Joichi Ito (Humane Letters)
2016:
Hank Azaria (Humane Letters),
Janet Echelman (Fine Arts),
H. Jack Geiger (Public Service),
Sonia Manzano (Fine Arts)
2017:
Kenya Barris (Humane Letters),
Sean B. Carroll (Science),
Maria Contreras-Sweet (Public Service),
Joseph W. Polisi (Fine Arts)
2018:
José Andrés (Public Service),
Ash Carter (Laws),
Ellen Kullman (Science),
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (Humane Letters),
Arturo O'Farrill (Music),
Farah Pandith (Laws)
2019:
Marie Cassidy (Public Service),
Edward Markey (Laws),
Eva Moskowitz (Humane Letters),
Ellen Ochoa (Engineering),
Alfre Woodard (Fine Arts)
References
^ Bradshaw, Della (October 16, 2015).
"Scott Beardsley, Darden school at the University of Virginia" . Financial Times . Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
^
"Drawn to her animals - Arts - The Boston Globe" . bostonglobe.com . Archived from
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